Brett Dalton

“It’s all connected.” That was the familiar refrain Tuesday night from Marvel’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” producers and cast after the ABC series’ Season 2 premiere aired. (And, if you’ve yet to see the new episode, consider pausing here and coming back after you’ve watched. Spoilers ahead.) Those words were clearly true from the new season’s get-go, as it started with a taste of the 1940s-set upcoming series “Agent Carter,” starring Hayley Atwell, with a strange and powerful obelisk her team boxed up back then driving the quick-paced, twisting-and-turning action for Agent Coulson’s (Clark Gregg) present-day S.H.I.E.L.D. team. Season 2 picks up with S.H.I.E.L.D. still in shambles from the disastrous double-agents revelation of HYDRA and the destruction seen in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” that changed the course of the show. HYDRA is still active, there’s that obelisk, the mystery of […]

“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” is nearing the conclusion of its first season — but before the May 13 finale comes Tuesday’s penultimate installment, “Ragtag,” which explores Grant Ward’s tumultuous personal history. Those who aren’t current with the series might want to stop reading now as spoilers are ahead. But curious Hero Complex readers can exclusively watch the opening of Tuesday’s episode in the video below, a flashback scene that traces a key meeting in young Grant’s life. Ward, played by actor Brett Dalton, was recently exposed as an agent of HYDRA, the evil organization that had infiltrated S.H.I.EL.D., the discovery of which prompted no less than Captain America (Chris Evans) to see to the the agency’s destruction in Marvel’s April blockbuster “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” Those events bled over into the world of the series, radically altering the political […]

“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” kicked it up a notch with Tuesday’s episode, “Eye Spy,” which enjoyed a preview screening this past weekend at New York Comic Con. The globe-trotting story focused on a former agent and protege of Clark Gregg’s Phil Coulson, Akela Amador, whose special abilities posed a real challenge for the team, and it gave Brett Dalton more of a chance to shine as Agent Grant Ward. (Click through the gallery above for a behind-the-scenes look at “Eye Spy.”) Back in August, Hero Complex visited the Los Angeles set of the series while the episode was filming, and soon after, chatted with Dalton, a San Jose native and Yale drama school grad, about the show and joining the Marvel universe as the special-ops expert. Hero Complex: How’s the experience been for you, so far, as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent? […]